Show HN: I made a vegan recipe aggregator to learn GO and GCP (opens in new tab)

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bumblewaxOP5y ago· 2 in thread

Hi HN,

My second project in the quest to release something every month this year is Kalester, a vegan recipe blog aggregator. This project also served as an excuse to learn a bit more about Go, which I've meant to start dabbling in for a while now.

I've got a Go app on Cloud Run that runs once a day to pull recipes from a bunch of blogs and stores them in Cloud SQL, and a second Cloud Run container with the site backend.

It's been pretty fun learning these technologies, and I'm excited about what can be done with all of this. Now I need to figure out what next month's project should be.

op035y ago

Nice job.

You can get and add stats from FB, Twitter etc on how many times each url has been liked, shared etc. Then you can produce weekly rankings.

Also try using NLP to tag (ie make clickable) all the indgredients mentioned in each blurb. Clicking the tag, say mushroom produces a page with all the mushroom recipes found.

And finally dont forget to also use this as an excuse to learn how to cook. Programming is fun and all cooking is even better :)

bumblewaxOP5y ago

Thank you! That's such great ideas, and I literally have "use nlp to create tags" as a todo too!

Haha, yes, I do like cooking, but I could definitely do a bit more of it and less programming.

billynomates1115y ago· 1 in thread

Love this, thank you!

bumblewaxOP5y ago

Thank you! Please do let me know if I can make it more useful in anyway.

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5 comments · 2 top-level

bumblewaxOP5y ago· 2 in thread

Hi HN,

My second project in the quest to release something every month this year is Kalester, a vegan recipe blog aggregator. This project also served as an excuse to learn a bit more about Go, which I've meant to start dabbling in for a while now.

I've got a Go app on Cloud Run that runs once a day to pull recipes from a bunch of blogs and stores them in Cloud SQL, and a second Cloud Run container with the site backend.

It's been pretty fun learning these technologies, and I'm excited about what can be done with all of this. Now I need to figure out what next month's project should be.

op035y ago

Nice job.

You can get and add stats from FB, Twitter etc on how many times each url has been liked, shared etc. Then you can produce weekly rankings.

Also try using NLP to tag (ie make clickable) all the indgredients mentioned in each blurb. Clicking the tag, say mushroom produces a page with all the mushroom recipes found.

And finally dont forget to also use this as an excuse to learn how to cook. Programming is fun and all cooking is even better :)

bumblewaxOP5y ago

Thank you! That's such great ideas, and I literally have "use nlp to create tags" as a todo too!

Haha, yes, I do like cooking, but I could definitely do a bit more of it and less programming.

billynomates1115y ago· 1 in thread

Love this, thank you!

bumblewaxOP5y ago

Thank you! Please do let me know if I can make it more useful in anyway.

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